Apropos, the following from Moore’s “Veiled Prophet of Khorassan”:—
“Dreadful it was to see the ghastly stare,
The stony look of horror and despair,
Which some of these expiring victims cast
Upon that mocking Fiend, whose veil, now raised,
Showed them, as in death’s agony they gazed,
Not the long-promised light, the brow whose beaming
Was to come forth, all conquering, all redeeming,
But features horribler than Hell e’er traced
On its own brood; no Demon of the Waste,